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Christmas market time in Yorkshire
The market will be bringing festive cheer in the city every day until Sunday December 21.
In addition to York's regular market there are alpine-style chalets along Parliament Street and St Sampson's Square offering gifts and festive treats. The vast majority of traders are from Yorkshire.
The market offers gifts and street food ranging from German sausages to Yorkshire pudding wraps. The event features a big wheel at The Moor, a carousel and helter skelter at Barker's Pool and, of course, Santa's Grotto. The Sheffield Christmas Market continues right up to Christmas Eve.
The Piece Hall Christmas Market in Halifax is held over six long weekends before Christmas from Friday to Sunday each week from Friday November 14.
Christmas markets offer a huge range of stalls and entertainment in many other towns and cities across Yorkshire.
Big city festivities begin in Leeds on Friday November 21 with a market in City Square where you're sure to find Bratwurst sausages, Glühwein and outdoor bars among the chalet-style cabins with a selection of artisan gifts. An ice skating rink will be a feature of Millennium Square where there will also be food and drink stalls and fairground rides. There is also a carousel at Cookridge Street, a Ferris wheel at Victoria Gardens and an artisan market is held at Bond Court from Thursday to Sunday each week. The markets remain open until Sunday December 21 but attractions around the ice rink stay open until New Year's Eve.
If a traditional village Christmas is more to your taste, Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales has a Christmas lights switch on event this Friday (November 21), followed by its local Christmas Markets on Saturday November 29 and Saturday December 6 with stalls including indoor craft stalls at its Town Hall, a brass band and singers.
Just a few miles away, Skipton in North Yorkshire fills its regular High Street market place with more than 100 stalls and entertainment for its popular Christmas Markets on Sunday December 7 and Sunday December 14.
The Selby Town Christmas Market takes place together with the town's lights switch-on on Saturday December 29 offering food stalls, local crafts and entertainment in the Market Place just in front of the historic Selby Abbey.
To the north of the region, the historic town of Richmond sets up its Christmas Fair on the cobbles of its Market Place on Sunday December 7 with a treasure hunt and entertainment from local musicians.
Beverley Festival of Christmas returns to the East Riding county town on Sunday December 14 with more than 120 stalls, brass bands, fairground rides and a Christmas parade from the town's Wednesday Market to its Saturday Market.
Drones take art to the sky but weather stops Friday show
The early extra show was staged on Thursday evening (November 13) before the originally planned show on Friday (November 14) because of expected high demand and as organisers looked towards the Friday forecast. Ultimately the original show date had to be cancelled on Friday afternoon because of the high winds and rain.
The event "Painting The Sky" took the work of Bradford-born artist David Hockney out of his gallery in Saltaire and into the air in a 600-drone light show created by Leeds-based Skymagic.
The flight of drones recreated some of Hockney's classic works in the free display lasting around 10 minutes.
The Thursday night show attracted many hundreds of visitors despite the late announcement that it would be taking place.
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Bradford 2025 - UK City of Culture
Bradford 2025 - UK City of Culture Look back at the city centre light art at our BD: is Lit event page.
Look back at the opening show at our City of Culture opening page.
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Month of Hullarity
The Hull Comedy Festival has a big line-up of comedians from around the UK, comedy shows including 'Allo 'Allo and the festival's Hullarious Fringe. Many of the shows are at the city's Hull Truck Theatre with other events taking place at the Comedy Lounge, The Brain Jar, The Edge Hub, Jubilee Central and a pop-up space at the Fruit Market. Hull's laughable dates started before and extend after the official festival three weeks of November 1 - 23.
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Reservoirs recovering but leak-fixing continues and hosepipe ban remains
Figures from Yorkshire Water announced on November 6 put reservoir stocks at 60.6% after levels rose for eight weeks in a row. The figure is now around 15% below the average for this time of year.
Yorkshire Water now says it has repaired more than 13,000 leaks since the beginning of April this year.
Find out more at the Yorkshire Water website.
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